Word: sniggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imagination. To the sum of dreams that have shaped the U.S., Author Griffith has added his of a land "where differences in color and race are not falsely denied but make a competition in being the best . . . where nobility is not mere respectability and virtue does not produce a snigger; where the clang of work and the clamor of play attest to the common health; where enemies cannot reach us because our merit, and not our guns or our propaganda, has won the world to our side...
...Midwest the snigger of the week was about the new "Benson tractor"-built without a seat, to accommodate farmers who have lost their pants. In Washington Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had little time for worrying about such Farm Belt jeers: he had on his hands an urgent, deadly serious piece of business with members of the Senate Agriculture Committee...
...name-she now has a small part in the Manhattan revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess). His work is as clearly in the American grain as that of Thomas Benton and Grant Wood, and happily free of both Benton's swagger and Wood's snigger...
...breath as Dostoevsky? Only posterity can answer. But with these three contemporaries, at any rate, Greene can hold up his head. He is as accomplished a craftsman as they, and without the mannerisms with which the two Americans have begun to burlesque their own styles. He has neither the snigger nor the snobbery that are Waugh's trademarks. But when Greene is compared with Dostoevsky, the great shocker of the 19th Century, all his books together would not match one Brothers Karamazov. That the comparison should even come to mind, however, suggests its inevitability. Graham Greene, like Dostoevsky...
...crown as queen of fashion, though in recent years others have tried to knock it off. But no one ever challenged Parisian dressmakers' sovereignty over Parisians themselves-until last week. At the Printemps department store, a sort of French Macy's, Parisian women who used to snigger at British "tow sack" styles were causing a mild riot, buying English dresses almost as fast as they could be shipped in, despite a 52% French duty. The wool dresses were ordinary, low-priced utility numbers that could be bought off the peg in modest shops in Birmingham or Liverpool...